Ali was found with the cleaver and pipe bomb in a JD Sports bag in his car on his first day's work.

The defendants claimed undercover cop "Vincent" made the bomb and planted it in the car.

Their lawyers alleged officers were allowed to break the law for the "greater good of getting people off the streets".

But it emerged Hussain's DNA was on tape in the bag, and the bomb made using plumbing techniques he had learned at college.

Takeaway boss Rahman, of Stoke-on-Trent, was a convicted sex offender with links to a gang who plotted to attack the Stock Exchange in 2010.

He was jailed for four and a half years in 2013 for possessing articles useful for terrorism.

He also claimed MI5 tried to recruit him as an informant against hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

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Shotgun cartridges and a partly built pipe bomb was also discovered inside the car in a Birmingham courier depotCredit: PA:Press Association

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The Samurai sword hidden in the boot of the vehicleCredit: PA:Press Association

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The sword was seized by cops after an undercover operationCredit: PA:Press Association

Ali and Hussain, 25, lived next door to each other, with their parents, in Sparkhill, Birmingham.

Both flew to Pakistan in 2012 to join a terror camp but were persuaded to go back by an uncle.

Mr Justice Globe noted that the four-and-a-half-month trial came amid four separate terror attacks in Britain.

He said: "These attacks demonstrate in stark form the carnage that can be created by different types of terrorist attack that can be carried out with a vehicle, explosives and loaded weapons.

"I am satisfied from the evidence and the jury verdicts, but for the intervention of the counter terrorism unit of West Midlands Police and the security services, there would have been not dissimilar terrorist acts in this country using at the very least the explosives and or one or more bladed weapons."

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